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CHAPTER 1 Before Sputnik : The Air Force Enters the Space Age, [removed]
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Huntsville / Fort Bliss / Washington / D .C . / Baltimore / /

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Naval Research Laboratory / General Electric Company / Air Force Cambridge Research Center / Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation / Applied Physics Laboratory / AAF / /

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America / /

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Air Force headquarters / Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University / Sun Building / Naval Research Laboratory / /

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New Year's Day / /

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Army Service Force / War Department / Research and Development Board / War Department's Aeronautical Board / Air Materiel Command / Army / AMC's Engineering Division / Navy / Air University / Army Ordnance Department / Committee for Evaluation of the Feasibility of Space Rocketry / Ridenour Committee / Anderson Committee / Air Materiel Com / AAF Board / theAir Force / Eisenhower administration / Committee on Guided Missiles / Johns Hopkins University / Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics Electronics Division / Truman administration / Scientific Advisory Board / Air Research and Development Command / Army Ordnance Division / Department of Defense / Army Ordnance Command / /

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Hall / Harvey Hall / Louis N. Ridenour / Donald L. Putt / Joseph T. McNarney / Theodore von Karman / Curtis E . LeMay / James H. ("Jimmy") Doolittle / David Griggs / Vannevar Bush / Wernher von Braun / Benjamin W. Chidlaw / Hoyt S . Vandenberg / W. Stuart Symington / Frank Malina / Karel Bossart / Neil H . McElroy / O. A. Anderson / Henry H . "Hap" Arnold / Carl A . Spaatz / /

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military leader / special assistant to General Vandenberg / Director of Research and Development in the office / the Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel / Matador / General / Chief of Staff for Research / Chief of Staff / Beyond Horizons Despite General / Major / Lieutenant General / Major General / a deputy chief of staff for research and development / eminent scientific advisor / Commanding General / Secretary of Defense / Deputy Chief of Staff / Development / chairman / Assistant Secretary / Commander / WAC Corporal / space scientist / Deputy Chief of Staff for Research and Develop / /

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Alabama / New Mexico / Texas / Maryland / /

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2 short-range liquid-propellant ballistic rocket technology / satellite technology / /

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